Prophetic Biblical implications of Ghostbusters

 I've been watching Ghostbusters incessantly over the last 4 years, and now I think I know why...

The film beloved by millions and myself has an appeal unlike many other top films, why is that?

Is there something deeper to the writers intent in the fun comedic ghost filled movie? Or did Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis (Script and Screenwriters) just accidentally touch on something much deeper?

How deep one might say? I say, prophetically and biblically deep and here's why...

As millions of us fans know Ghostbusters entails the trio of supernatural Ghost hunters played by actors Bill Murray as Peter Venkman, Dan Ackroyd as Ray Stantz, and Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler, later joined by a fourth character Winston Zeddemore played by Ernie Hudson.

The trio are scientists at a University and not very good scientists as they get fired and kicked out of their college mostly because Peter Venkman is a sort of Con Man who seems more interested in finding young college girls to chase than working on his scientific experiments.

Call it Fate, call it Luck...

The trio of parasychologists get kicked out by the dean but Venkman realizes it's meant to be, he understands there's something bigger at play than just the Dean of the College rejecting their "Theories of the worst kind of popular tripe"

Peter Venkman whether he realizes it or not already believes in something bigger than himself, perhaps fate, or luck or possibly even a belief in God.

We are given hints of what the Ghostbusters believe throughout the film but we'll get to that later.

So, taking a leap of faith, the trio take the plunge and start a business using Ray Stantz's House as collateral, Egon Spengler the smartest and most truly scientific of the three delares, "The interest rate alone comes to ninety five thousand dollars in five years"

I heard a voice say Zuul...

Enter the female love interest and one of the key players in the film Dana Barrett played by the accomplished and beautiful Sigourney Weaver who's been dubbed by many as "The Queen of Sci Fi"

Dana's character encounters a being of some kind in her refrigerator named "Zuul" which looks somewhat like a Demonic dog and the filmakers even named these beasts "Demon Dogs"

"Not your typical behavior for a major appliance"

The bizarre encounter by Dana takes her to see the Ghostbusters who do a few tests on her declaring they will begin to investigate the strange being in her refrigerator. Peter Venkman instantly is attracted to the beautiful Ms. Barrett and investigates Dana's NYC apartment but finding nothing to Dana's consternation and aggravation where he admits "I'm madly in love with You"

I'm going to completely change gears here and reveal what I feel are some very interesting if not down right creepy parallels between Ghostbusters written produced and filmed way back in 1984 and what we in this Country are right now experiencing in September of 2020.

Anyone that's alive today understands we are in unprecedented unchartered territory, with the Corona virus pandemic, racial and civil unrest not seen in 5 decades, and a spring and summer of unrest and violence from riots or so called Protests that have engulfed America this year, as well as massive fires in several western states from Calif. to Colorado which have caused apocalyptic orange skies over much of California and other western states, and these things don't seem to be going away.

In Ghostbusters, some very strange things are happening, ghosts or some sort of spirits are appearing all over New York City which is why the Ghostbusters are becoming so busy. In one scene where Winston Zeddemore their new hire and Ray Stantz are riding in the car Winston who reveals he believes in God, and "Loves Jesus' Style" asks Ray if he believes in God, which Ray says "He's never met him" meaning, no, he doesn't really believe in God. 

Winston responds "Ray, do you remember something in the bible about the dead rising from the grave?" But by the end of the conversation Ray, who apparently had some Bible knowledge at some point quotes the book of Revelation (actually misquoting the wrong verse number, it's Rev. 6:12 not 7:12) "And I looked, and He opened the sixth seal, and the Sun turned black as sackcloth, and the Moon became as Blood..."

To which Winston responds "And the Skies fell and the seas boiled" both saying "Judgment day"

Ray however still not believing says "Every ancient religion has it's own myth about the end of the world" To which Winston the Christian says "Myth? Ray, has it ever occurred to you that the reason we've been so busy lately is because the Dead HAVE BEEN rising from the grave." And Ray suddenly and alarmingly realizes that perhaps Winston is right wanting "A little Music" as a comfort...

Winston in this one scene convinces Ray previously agnostic that perhaps the reason they are very busy is because the biblical notion of the Dead rising from their graves is what is causing the "Ghosts" showing up all over Manhattan. Interestingly, this scene ends with a long and wide shot of the car going over a bridge with the Two Towers in the direct background which as we all know were completely destroyed 17 years later killing 3,000 people, the most deadly attack on the United states since Pearl Harbor.

Nineteen years after that deadly attack, and a war that has stretched on since America is now facing what I and several other Biblically literate observers are seeing that can only be described as the prercursors to Judgment, yes, that's what I said. A Pandemic that cannot be stopped or a cure found (yet), civil strife and unrest and violence this year (2020) that I have not witnessed since the early 1970's Vietnam protest era, a complete lockdown or stalling of the American economy for millions (including myself, I have not played a Music job or band gig or Church gig this year), Churches being told they cannot have more than 50 people in some states and in California, Churches have been ordered to NOT SING and some are facing fines or even possible jail time just for having church indoors. The U.S. Government, the Congress is no longer working, no longer operating because the two political sides are at each others throats. Millions of Americans are at each others throats arguing politics on social media. 

In Ghostbusters, the Quartet of Spiritual soldiers get thrown in jail as a sniveling micro managing control freak agent from the Environmental protection agency decides he will turn off their protection grid that keeps all the ghosts and spiritual entities locked up which unleashes literal hell into NYC.

I submit to you dear reader that we, the people of God, the church, the followers of Jesus are the equivalent of the Ghostbusters holding back and keeping in check the dark demonic spiritual forces that are right this very day threatening to completely tear apart and destroy America...and just like in the movie there are a large number of completely unaware, spiritually dead government officials unwittingly starting to release dark, destructive demons or "ghosts" by their stupidity and lack of spiritual discernment in this nation. And they have no clue that they're aiding and abetting this...

How odd, In the Movie an incompetent Government official goes after a small business trying to shut them down, and in 2020 in America we have Hair salon Owners being railroaded and thrown under the bus by a powerful government official named Nancy Pelosi who used her powerful position to get her hair cut and blow dried while NONE of us little people can do the same. In Denver a racetrack wanting to open for their drag racing season but mandated they cannot, has been sued by the state of Colorado and Jefferson County as they had an event for about 2,000 3,000 people. Simultaneously the Governor has allowed the Glorified NFL Denver Broncos to have 7,500 people at an NFL game, just nobody like myself can play a gig in a club in the city of Denver.

As the Ghostbusters are taken from jail to the NYC Mayors office as he's in a bind trying to deal with Ghostly (or Demonic) entities that are causing havoc all over NYC. Our heroes declare "A disaster of biblical proportions" is about to be unleashed upon NYC unless something is done...The Catholic Bishop shows up and declares " personally Lenny, I think it's a sign from God, but dont quote me on that"  revealing that the Bishop of NYC is not willing to put his religious career and high position in jeopardy by speaking the truth.

Meanwhile, the would be girlfriend of Peter Venkman has been literally possessed by the entity from her refrigerator Zuul. If you've read the Bible at all you know that it deals with the reality of demons as if they definitely exist. Jesus cast numerous demons out of several people including a boy that threw himself into the fire, and a man so demon possessed that he would break chains and run naked through the countryside. Oddly, the town where this possessed man came from were so freaked out by what Jesus did putting the man in his right mind again that they made him leave.

Dr. Venkman witnesses Dana's possession as she attempts to seduce him into a sexual encounter thinking he is the other possesed human needed to complete the sexual ritual and thus bringing the larger demon entity Gozer, the destructor. In many ancient religions and even in ancient Israel the reason God judged those nations was because they had adopted the demonic, false god worshiping religions like Baal worship, and the most hideous of these religions Molech worship, which entailed the parents of a first born child "sacrificing" the baby to the god Molech which was a huge brass Idol that was heated to thousands of degrees, and then the abomination of putting the first born child into this fiery Idol would burn the child alive. In many of these ancient religions temple worship included perverted orgies that they believed pleased their ( false) gods.

I have written before about how today in so called modern America we have now gotten to the point of sacrificing our own children to the god of "Choice" which of course is the holocaust of modern abortion. 60 million babies made in God's image (which He states in Psalms and other places) have been sacrificed in this manner thinking "Life will be better and easier" 

In a well known ceremony last year New York's governor Cuomo signed a bill surrounded by abortion proponents that would enable the destruction and killing of an unborn baby right up until the day it would have been born, and it was CHEERED by the onlookers...We are no further along than the ancient Pagan nations religious rituals that sacrificed children that the Israelites adopted...

In one scene in particular Dana Barrett now possessed by Zuul, is seen after her apartment is blown apart sitting in a chair, her legs spread wide open as if she were a whore, and she is sitting in front of the blown out wall behind her which looks a whole lot like a cutout of the shape of the United States. in the distance is the skyline of New York City. After looking at this scene hundreds of times I've deduced that the writers of the film were either purposefully or unintentionally showing Dana Barrett as the Biblical Whore of Babylon in Revelation, waiting in a sexual pose for the other Possessed character Vinz Glortho (Played by Rick Moranis) and visually saying here's the Biblical Whore of Babylon, New York City, and America, which is about to be judged and visited by Demonic forces of Immense power, and possibly destruction, because she loved her sexual demonic perversions and blood spilling child killing more than she loved God.

Here's hoping that I'm wrong, and some Ghostbusters like spiritual heroes and prayer warriors can arrive in 2020 as we watch not just New York City which has become a "Ghost Town" and numerous other American cities that are struggling under an actual pandemic, violence, and fires of biblical Proportions before the REAL Stay Puft Man destroys New York City and America for good.

Don't shoot me, I'm just the Sax Player.

I've been assaulted twice in the last 5 years

 I've been assaulted twice in the last 5 years,

Not physically but guys getting right up in my face wanting to start an altercation. Once in Downtown Denver by a homeless guy I was actually trying to give food to while waiting to play a gig, and last year by a Dad of a kid at my crossing guard Job who got an inch from my face screaming "Fu%$ You Fu%$# You for two minutes. That Dad is in jail now btw...

What I learned from this is that our society was getting very coarse, very uncaring and yes more and more violent...Here we are now in 2020 and Riots are happening in multiple cities, people are looting Wal-Marts and Targets while some say they have the RIGHT to do so.

People are burning down small businesses that black and white families have spent decades building, and some say "It's just stuff, they have a right to do that" A white person of 20 years old will get an inch from a black cops face and give him the finger calling him a Fu$#%@ Pig, and then shout 5 minutes later "Black Lives Matter!".

We've watched large groups of young people walk onto an interstate freeway blocking traffic for hours and if people attempt to drive through they pull them out of their cars and beat them. State Capitols and Churches and Synagogues have been vandalized with graffiti or worse with looting and destruction.

Young people seemed to believe they had the right to Tear down statues from civil war era heroes to slavery abolitionists and even Abraham Lincoln because they are so incredibly ignorant of American History. And City Government leaders did nothing to stop them, so why shouldn't they?

Churches in California are forced and told NO SINGING while the same City Government leaders will go out and march with several thousand people half of whom are not wearing masks and shouting "Black Lives Matter!" Apparently the Corona Virus automatically differentiates between a large street protest and a Church service...

We've seen young black men cold cock an older white man in the head as he was trying to keep his business from being looted or burned to the ground, and young black thugs who shot a retired Black Police officer as he tried to protect his friends store, and then they streamed the killing live on Facebook.

And amazingly most Media from Local affiliates to National networks seem to only be concerned with a scant few white cops who shoot a young black man because he was resisting arrest that had a lengthy rap sheet with some felonies and then we're told "These are Mostly Peaceful Protests"

In my nearly 62 years on this Planet I've seen some strange stuff, especially in foreign countries, but I've never seen anything quite like we're experiencing right now.

But this I do know...God is still in control, and He's watching ALL of this. He's telling us to REPENT, which means TURN AROUND, and stop doing what you're doing.

Especially leaders, civic leaders, church leaders...STOP lying to the people, stop encouraging them to continue raging in the streets, stop telling the People lies that it's OK to keep on sinning, It's OK to keep on hating your adversaries and filling the streets with rage and violence, it's OK to hate the other guy who votes differently than you do. At some point God Himself will say "That's enough" and HE will fix this mess if we cannot, or refuse to ourselves.

Don't shoot me,

I'm just the Sax Player

The Duplicity of the Liberal Progressive mind.

As Some of my readers know, I was once almost 40 years ago a liberal Progressive Democrat.

 I voted for Jimmy Carter in College back in 1976 and then sat back and watched Jimmy weaken our military, tell us to turn down our thermostats and put sweaters on to save energy, made us drive 55 MPH even for excruciating long distance drives, and completely turned the Iran Hostage situation into a laughable boondoggle that he had no idea how to handle...

It was at that point I really began to think hard about my own mindset, or why I believed and thought in ideological terms as a Liberal Democrat...

An unsettling feeling came over me around 1979 watching Carters ineptness as a President and leader
of our nation and why he was so inept...

I have no doubts that Jimmy is a good man who says he's a Christian and even teaches Sunday school, but something was beginning to really bother me about his (and my own) mindset and belief system and the beliefs of my liberal progressive compatriots across this nation...

It then dawned on me that what was occurring inside my own heart and head was a revealing of a  duplicity or double mindedness that I was becoming aware of in myself as well as those who called themselves Liberals...

Thoughts began forming in my young mind about the duplicity of people like myself and ALL liberal Democrats like "Wait a minute, I claim to be personally against abortion, but I also say a Woman has a right to Choose to have an abortion"

Or "Hold on now, I say and all liberals say we're against environmental degradation, but I'm noticing a lot of Liberal Democrats are leaving trash all over the place at their protests" or "Now wait, I'm saying and believing I'm a good and moral person but I'm sleeping with my college girlfriend and partying too much"

It was as if a light bulb had gone off in my head that was telling me "Wait, you're saying one thing, but in your own personal actions and what you actually do seems to be saying something else"
It was a "Enlightenment" of my own conscience if you will...

I began to notice this type of Duplicitous and double minded thinking in nearly every liberal Democrat I watched in the news, or heard speak, or thought about voting for...

Years later watching then President Bill Clinton get caught up in a sex scandal of his own making with a 21 year old intern named Monica Lewinsky, I heard and watched a man that Democrats defended and made excuses for over and over again. Many still make excuses for Bill Clinton's dalliances and sexual escapades with not just one or two women but SCORES of women who were coming out of the closet to say that Governor Clinton in Arkansas had sexually assaulted or even raped them...

Yet these same people that excused and voted for this reprehensible man (and his enabling controlling wife years later) claimed to be good Christian people and were church goers who believed themselves to be moral people...Worse yet these same liberals currently were harshly attacking the present day President Mr. Trump for some "Bad words" towards women he'd spoken years before he was even running for President. Those very same liberal Democrats have spoken and typed some incredibly foul mouthed and offensive sentences about Melania Trump the Presidents wife...

I began to question how can people who think of themselves as decent law abiding church going people completely justify and excuse the reprehensible and immoral behavior of a known sexual assaulter Bill Clinton, but still put him and his deceitful manipulating wife back in the white house? And now believe that somehow that is a more moral choice for this nation?

It's because these folks have completely deluded and deceived themselves over many years by saying and claiming one set of moral standards with their mouths or their pens, but then contradict themselves by ACTING OUT and VOTING FOR a completely different set of moral standards...

Take abortion again...Liberal progressive Democrats still to this day hold two completely contradictory thoughts and beliefs in their heads concerning the murder of unborn human life made in God's Image. (Genesis 1:26-27)

How you might say?
Well, How many times have we heard a liberal say "I'm personally against abortion, but I believe a woman has every right to choose an abortion even right up until the baby is born"
You see, these are two completely contradictory and opposite beliefs and thoughts...You cannot possibly be both against abortion as they claim, AND be pro choice simultaneously...the thoughts and beliefs contradict one another...One cannot say "I'm against abortion" and then state simultaneously "I firmly believe a woman has every right to abort and kill her own child and I call that a woman's choice"

Let's take another example, Homosexual Marriage...
The liberal progressive and liberal church goer will say "I believe the Bible is God's word"
and then in the next breath say "I believe two people that love each other have a right to get married, I believe in Marriage equality"
Yet the bible liberals claim to believe in states without a shadow of a doubt numerous times that Marriage between or even sex between a man and a man or a woman and a woman is an abomination in the LORD'S eyes and is expressly forbidden. (Leviticus 18:22, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Timothy 1:10, Romans 1:27)
You cannot entertain "Marriage equality" and also claim to believe that the bible is God's word...those are contradicting statements and beliefs...

In the Bible Jesus had extremely harsh words for the duplicitous and double minded religious leaders of his day called the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

You see Jesus reached the point where He saw completely through the facade of religiosity and the mind boggling hypocrisy of the Jewish leaders, who had great religious and political power, and could force all citizens to strictly abide by their extremely hard to follow draconian rules and regulations about food, manner of cleanliness, sexual purity, and religious practice.

 But Christ revealed to EVERYONE how these leaders never followed their own edicts and broke their own harsh regulations and rules. In other words when he called these hypocrites "A brood of Vipers", and "Snakes" he was calling them out on their double standards and duplicitous minds and behavior. (Matthew 12:34, Luke 3:7)

As everyone knows that's exactly why the religious leaders plotted and planned to kill Jesus Christ because of their own duplicitous thinking and double mindedness.

That too however turned out for all human kinds good and was our salvation for those of us who believe in Him...

Don't shoot me I'm just the Sax Player...

What is a Prophet of God?

The Bible speaks many times about Prophets or messengers. Who are these Prophets?
Prophets are appointed by God Himself and usually called to give a message to a certain Nation and it's People or society...

In the Old Testament of the Bible which is God's word there are many examples of Prophets or Messengers that the Lord Himself raises up or "Calls" to a specific Ministry usually to a society and it's people.
Almost all Prophets in scripture were appointed by God  because the Lord has a message that's extremely important to a nation and it's people, so God appoints these messengers to bring that particular message...

Prophets are an odd group of Biblical characters as evidenced by the highly peculiar Prophets in the old testament, and the new Testament both.
For example Hosea, who was called by God to take a wife that was actually a Prostitute and ended up being completely unfaithful to him. What a strange situation right?
Why in the world would God appoint a messenger who's wife was a Prostitute and completely unfaithful to him and have many different Lovers? Bizarre Right?

Well, if we read on in Hosea this happened because God was using him and his unfaithful prostitute wife as an exact mirror image or picture of Israel's complete Unfaithfulness to the Lord.
God used Hosea and his strange situation to demonstrate to Israel's people that that's exactly what God sees Israel and it's people doing...They are in complete rebellion and unfaithfulness to God and the only way He could even reach them is through Hosea's bizarre and extremely difficult relationship with his unfaithful wife...

Many times God appoints a prophet to a nation that has the terrible message that judgment is coming and they'd better get prepared or turn away from their wickedness before disaster happens, if it can be averted at all...
These Prophets have an extremely difficult Job of telling their own nation that God has had enough and the hand of judgment was soon coming.

Obviously that sort of really bad news is not well received by a society and it's people...but the real Prophet says and does what God has instructed him to say and do, not what a society and people WANT to hear, but what they NEED to hear.
Therefore, the real prophet does not care about what his culture or society thinks of him and his message particularly if it's bad news, he presses on not caring of how the consequences of a nasty judgmental message will be received by a society that has turned it's back to God in complete rebellion, Or what it will do to him personally which could be very uncomfortable...

Because of the Prophets sometimes harsh but true message the prophet can not only endure a lot of hardship in his own life, but even harsh ridicule, mockery or even persecution from his countrymen...
We see this from some Old Testament prophets like Jeremiah sometimes called "The Weeping Prophet" whom God told to put on a Yoke or a Wooden stock around his neck and head as a Testimony to Israel's people that the Yoke of being forced under the King of Babylon was coming. Tough Gig right?

Interestingly the False Prophet Hananiah broke this Stock or Yoke off Jeremiah's neck saying the Israelites would not be forced under the ruler of Babylon, which turned out to be completely false as History shows that yes, the Jews were put under Babylonian rule.This btw is how one discerns the real prophet from the False, the real prophets message can be extremely harsh and hard to hear, while the false prophets message may sound sweet, comforting and pleasant, except that the harsh judgment happens in reality while the false prophets "Peace" message does NOT happen. The real prophets message ALWAYS happens. This is not to say that a prophets message is not a peaceful one or always about the judgment and destruction of a nation, but sometimes it is.

Some Prophets in scripture predicted in exact detail the future or future events about people or a society. For instance, the prophet Micah who foretold the exact town of the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem in Micah 5:2

"But You Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of Old, from ancient times"

And here in Psalms usually attributed to the warrior King David also a Prophet, about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ...Psalm 22:18

"They divide my garments among them, and cast lots for my Clothing"

These are small details about the birth and death Of Jesus right down to the clothing and place of birth told hundreds of years before...Amazing isn't it?

Other prophets have foretold events far into the distant future like for instance Daniel, prophesying of end time events which even Jesus alludes to here in Matthew 24:15

"So when you see standing in the Holy place the abomination of desolation, described by the prophet Daniel (Let the reader understand)

And in Daniel 12:11- "And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days"

We see here that the Prophet Daniel is talking about future events that even Christ confirms of what
is to come.

The New Testament also declares that the prophets job is not yet done as we see in Acts 2:17 as Peter preaches to the crowd...

"In the Last days God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people, your Sons and Daughters will prophesy, tour young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams..."

The prophets job is not to be taken lightly, and a very difficult job it is, but I'm Positive the real prophets of God are highly rewarded in Heaven with our Lord Jesus Christ.

I'm just the Sax Player...

Art Imitates Life? Or does life Imitate art?

A former Band student of mine was in the Aurora Century 16 theaters the night Orange haired freak James Holmes walked in and killed numerous people and wounded many many more in 2012,
The student I'm speaking of will not be named but regardless was not hurt at least not Physically.
The emotional and mental scars of such a horrific scene can't be measured I don't think...

Aurora Century 16 was the theater I took my own two boys to numerous times for showings of the latest
films enjoyed by Teen boys and their dads. Below is my late son Juan as we took in the latest film about a year before the Mass Shootings there...

Of course nobody could predict what was going to happen in that theater about a year after this photo I took of my son.

As an artist myself who's recorded a national Christian Saxophone record for a major Label, I've often wondered...

"Does art imitate life? or does life imitate art?"

I think both statements are true and here's why...
For Hundreds of years art has definitely imitated life, it's glories and tragedies, it's beauty and in it's Debased awfulness as well as it's bloody realities.
Through most of history art imitated life simply because it took weeks months or years to paint a painting on a canvas and put it out.
Or for a writer to finish a novel and have a publisher put it into the Marketplace. These processes used to take years...

Even as recently as 50 years ago a photographer from a news agency covering the Vietnam war had to first process and develop the film, and then have the news agency send it to newspapers all over the world. A process that took at least a few days.
Even with the advent of television, video and photography capturing the beauty of a new lion cub being born at a Zoo, or a tragedy like the famous photo in Vietnam capturing a naked Vietnamese girl running through the streets away from a Napalm bomb took at least a day.

But in the last 30 years publishing has become an instant immediate phenomenon never seen before in man kinds history. Today a Blogger like myself can write, use photographs and publish a blog immediately upon writing it for the world to see.

My own photo of Aurora Century 16 I took my kids to (2012)

In the the last 15 years publishing has become even more immediate when a person can instantly publish not only their words, but photos, videos, memes, cartoons, and any type of media INSTANTLY on social Media for millions to view.

Filmmakers, Photographers, Media producers of any kind can now instantly publish their work, whereas just 25 years ago that was something only in science fiction novels or movies which took months or years to publish...

For this reason I believe life is now ALSO imitating art because the instantaneous publishing of film previews, YouTube videos of violence by ISIS or by insane shooters can IMMEDIATELY be published all over the world and seen by the public, by news hounds, by adults and Children...or by impressionable and insane wannabe copycat Killers...

Nonsense you say?
Well, here's a bit of evidence from years ago.

The mass serial killer Ted Bundy was scheduled to be executed for his decades long string of murders of young mostly college age women. It was a well known story.
The Christian Psychologist James Dobson did an interview with Bundy just shortly before he was to be executed for his heinous crimes.

In that interview Bundy said that his consumption of Pornography as a young boy and teenager was responsible for warping his mind to the point that he then wanted to ACT OUT his sexually deviant and violent fantasies in real life, which he did act out murdering numerous young women and committing sexual crimes.
This was coming from the serial killer himself...

 The Aurora Century 16 killer James Holmes is more evidence that life in the form of insane shooters copies art...
Holmes with his dead staring eyes in his Jail outfit and Orange hair was copying the Joker character from the film...
I'm not saying everyone who kills or all who obsessively consume violent or sexually charged media copies these violent films or Videos or Computer games like Doom, which even the Columbine Killers were known to play obsessively... But I'm saying that
people who are already deranged, and are seeking out media that confirms their violent psychotic tendencies consume this stuff like a fire consumes Gasoline...

There was an old saying I heard in Churches a lot several years ago..."Garbage in, Garbage out"
meaning, what you look at, consume, read, and watch will eventually change your thinking processes and out comes the garbage in some form.
For some who are already insane, that garbage out could be in the form of actually ACTING OUT violence.

This weekend (October 2019) the New "Joker" movie comes out, which I've already read my FB friends reviews of who say it's inordinately and grossly violent and very disturbing...
The Aurora Theater I took my own kids to where Holmes did his ghastly, violent deed is not showing it, and perhaps we should all think about why that is...

I'm just the Sax player so don't shoot me. Thanks,

DT Out.

My time in a work release facility...

Last summer I was playing a gig in Littleton, Co. a very high priced wedding I was hired to play Sax for....

The band leader took us out for drinks before the gig, so...
I thought it was perfectly fine to have a beer or 3 on the gig.
Makes sense to me anyway...

However what transpired was not what I expected...

I was told by the band leader to basically stop drinking even though he'd took us out for
drinks before the gig so I called him on his hypocrisy...
We argued about it, I apologized by email...twice...
and then got a check in the mail $150 short of what he promised to pay me and then called me basically a racist and a few other threats...claiming I'd breached contract except there was no contract for the gig and nothing was signed...I finished the gig btw every last note to the end of it...

This band leader happens to be an Immigrant to this country btw...

This immigrant band leader then called me a a racist and "I will teach you how to treat immigrants"
to which I said my mother is not white and how dare you call me a racist since my own family CAME from Hispanic immigrants to this nation which I can trace back to Spain hundreds of years ago...

Long story short I let this band leader get to me getting angry and shorting my pay and went to a bar and drank too much too fast...
And was pulled over...I've admitted my guilt and sin to the Lord and asked His forgiveness and He has done that...

Spending 4 nights in the Jail on Fourth of July Weekend 2018, the first night was with about 20-25 others in a crowded lockup, the second night in the Jail proper with a 30 something white man, the third night with two young men about twenty years old and then was released the fourth day at about 7 pm. This all happened over the Fourth of July weekend 2018.

My Trial was moved 3 times and put off until January 2019 for different reasons, and I finally faced a Judge in County Court where I was told I had spent two days in Jail when in reality I was there 4 days as I stated earlier...from this I learned that the Jailers lied about how many days I spent in Jail and I did not find that out until the trial.

I had a Public defender who I'd talked to maybe 5 minutes before the trial, she was nice but of little help and I read a statement to the Judge How I admitted what I did was wrong, said I was sorry, explained how I was ripped off by a band leader,  got angry and drank too much, but admitted my guilt, and asked for some understanding as my son had just died and would like to be able to get my license back ASAP, as well as some mercy in my situation...I was shown very little mercy by this Judge who I learned from a few websites that she is extremely biased in favor of the prosecution...as she was in my case...

I learned that public defenders are so busy with probably 25-30 cases a day that they are of little help if any, and I also learned that Money talks in these situations...If you have money or your family does
for a high powered expensive lawyer you will get half the sentence or less than the poor man who cannot afford a high powered lawyer...I met a man in work release who's family had money and was able to hire a high powered lawyer from Denver that received a much lighter sentence than I got for a much more serious offense...

My sentence was 28 days in a Work release facility in spite of the fact the Jailers lied and had me in the Jail 4 days not 2 days, almost $ 4,000 in fines, court ordered alcohol classes, 2 years probation, and 80 hours of community service.

I began my work release sentence in February which was an eye opening experience to say the least...And I've written a song called "Unjust Justice" about my experiences in this situation I've found myself in...

I work as a crossing guard for Schools and have for almost 7 years, but I'm also hired by the Police dept. which is an anomaly as almost NO Police departments hire their school crossing guards but here in this town they have for years. I learned in work release that that put me at risk being hired by Police in a lock up situation with criminals of different types like a car thief, a drug dealer, a meth addict, an assaulter, a convicted robber and other assorted types of inmates. Most were like me in work release for a misdemeanor...

As I heard their stories and listened to them, some of
these men had been in and out of Jails, Prisons, and work release since they were teenagers and a few were as old as 70.

I had compassion on these men and prayed for all of them while I was in that facility even though some of them absolutely hated me knowing I was an employee of the police dept., which I did not tell them btw, instead I told them I was hired by the school district which is also true.... Yet they seemed to know who I was hired by...

I learned that the men in Jails and Prisons and work release are "Street Smart" meaning, they know what's going on on the street, they know the cops by name, they know a lot of what's going on on the "Street" and they knew me and who I worked for...I was not liked by several in that facility...

One night while I was sleeping on my metal bed some personal property of mine was stolen...a cell phone battery charger I plugged in every night and put right by my pillow.. it disappeared and in place of that I found two earrings that looked like cubic zirconium or possibly even diamond...
Someone was plotting against me to get me to report this theft and therefore cause a Guard "Shakedown" of our sleeping room thus turning everyone in the Pod against me falsely saying I was a Snitch or informant...
I threw the earrings away and did not report it to the guards blunting their plans...They still thought I was a Snitch which was completely false...

One man in I prayed for numerous times in particular in my "Pod" as they were called or sleeping room with about 16 bunks made of metal with a thin green pad and 3 blankets, was a Hispanic man of maybe 30 or younger and reminded me a lot of one of my Uncles who had died 45 years ago...and looked a lot like my Uncle.

This man did not like me at first as many of them did not  as I read my son Juan's bible at the end of my metal bed I had taken in there...
Some men bristled as I read that bible I'd sent to my son...others didn't seem to mind...

The man across from me told me he was a Catholic, and I told him I was raised a Catholic, but then began playing music in Protestant churches and did so for 25 years as the Catholic church didn't use Saxophones in Worship...I also told him I had played at Pope John Paul's World Youth Day back in 1993 even though Saxophone was considered "Non Liturgical" by the Catholic Church...By the end of my 28 days in work release that man that hated me for reading my bible 4 times a day on the end of my bed told me he was going to Victory Outreach Church In Greeley on Sundays with his mother...

I chose a "Life Verse" over almost 25 years ago for the ministry and work God has put before me, a bible verse that encapsulates what the ministry the Lord has given me is all about..

"For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost..." Luke 19:10

The thrust or focus of my ministry has been reaching people for Christ that are not typically reachable by the recognized Christian church, from talking to sound men and light men about my faith while traveling in a Christian Rock Band in the 1980's, to playing music in Jails and Prisons in California or Colorado, to reaching thousands of people on the web or social media with my music, to reading the Bible that was my sons while being hated and disliked by hardened men in a work release facility, this is the job the Lord has appointed me...


Don't hate me I'm just the Sax Player. : )

A Nation of Lawlessness...

For close to 40 years now our country has refused to follow it's own laws...

We began ignoring our own laws and God's laws around 1980 and our national leaders did nothing to stop this lawlessness.

Consequently, three generations of people in this nation have watched it's own leaders and government ignore the laws they were sworn to uphold, and the result is three generations of Americans that have become accustomed to their own nations lawlessness and are now very familiar and used to lawlessness...It's become part of the fabric of our society....it's ingrained in our very being as a nation, Sadly...

Suddenly and surprisingly however in 2016 a new leader was elected President to the shock of nearly everyone, but particularly Democrats who believed their anointed Queen Hillary was supposed to win...But the American people spoke much to the chagrin of the ideological left wing, and they were mad...very very mad...but yet the new and shocking leader was about to enact the reverse of American lawlessness that most politicians of both parties had created, saying things like "I'm going to build a big beautiful wall", and
"I'm behind Law enforcement", and "I will end illegal Immigration"
Naturally, to three generations of people who had grown accustomed to their own government breaking it's own immigration laws (as well as God's Laws) this was a shocking thing.

To millions of people who now just assumed illegal immigration would fester on as it has since the Reagan era, and that women (of course) had every right to kill their own babies, and Police men and women were now considered "Pigs" who needed to be protested by kneeling at Football Games during the national anthem, this new leader was acting like a Fascist Nazi. And this is the cause of the division we are now seeing...

Why, How dare this arrogant new President actually attempt to uphold national immigration law!, how dare he tell women they cannot murder their own babies!, Who does this arrogant man think he is by backing up Cops! the audacity!
Who does he think he is?!
Racist!, Nazi!, Woman Hater! was their cry...

In 1973 the Country made national law stating that a mother could kill her own baby and used a young woman named Norma McCorvey to persuade the highest court in the land to codify Roe Vs. Wade.
Oddly enough the Roe of Roe Vs. Wade never had an abortion...she was just used by leftist Democrats, feminists, and planned Parenthood to normalize the killing of an unborn human being and persuaded an entire generation of young women that it was their "Choice" to do so...In fact Norma McCorvey the Plaintiff in Roe Vs. Wade became one of the Nations staunchest enemies of Roe Vs. Wade and tried right up until her death to fight against the law she helped enact. Ms. McCorvey also became a conservative pro life Christian having a total change of heart...

The Bible states in Second Thessalonians that a "Man of Lawlessness" (2 Thess. 2:1-12) would rise up and reveal himself during the times before Jesus Christ returns. This man would not only encourage great lawlessness against God, but persecute those who stood against him, that is until Jesus Christ Returns and annihilates him with his breath...

Jesus Christ Himself prophesied in Matthew 24:12 that "Because Lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold"

We can be assured that in the end God wins and Jesus will destroy every last vestige of lawlessness and everything that offends God....and that is the believers hope...

I'm just the Sax Player...